Deepwater Horizon: BP got 'punishment it deserved' Loretta Lynch says
by Dominic Rushe in New York from on (#PHE3)
- Attorney general: disaster caused 'unprecedented damage' in Gulf of Mexico
- Oil company must pay record settlement of $20bn for Deepwater Horizon spill
BP got "the punishment it deserves", the US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, said on Monday as she announced a record settlement of more than $20bn arising from the oil firm's fatal 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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